ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Nov 2004

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV41

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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